(This article contains excerpts from a Reuters Special Report to be published at 0700 ET/1100GMT, "The Lavish and Leveraged Life of Aubrey McClendon.")By John Shiffman, Anna Driver and Brian Grow

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 7 (Reuters) - Aubrey K. McClendon, the chief executive officer ofChesapeake Energy Corp, has intertwined his personal and financial interests with those of thepublicly traded company he runs to a far greater degree than shareholders may realize, accordingto interviews, public records and hundreds of internal Chesapeake documents reviewed by Reuters.

The executive has deployed a team of Chesapeake employees to handle his personal businessaffairs and uses the corporate jet regularly to ferry family members and friends to holidaydestinations, the internal records show.

McClendon's use of Chesapeake resources is so extensive that a special unit, informallyknown as "AKM Operations," is housed on the corporate campus and employs six full-time employeesand the time of scores of others to carry out accounting and engineering services.

In 2010, Chesapeake employees spent more than 15,000 hours working on McClendon's personalprojects at a cost of about $3 million, according to internal records reviewed by Reuters. In2011, another document shows, Chesapeake workers did almost $3.2 million in work for McClendon.That document indicates McClendon reimbursed the company for all but $250,000 of this spendingin each year, as required by his contract. In the past, AKM Operations tasks have includedoverseeing work to repair hailstone damage to a home McClendon owned.

The corporate flights are detailed in internal logs reviewed by Reuters. They show thatMcClendon took $2.25 million worth of business flights in 2010, and often brought familymembers along. This included trips valued at more than $100,000 to Europe and India that werebilled as business flights.

McClendon also took a combined $1 million worth of personal flights in 2010 and 2011, a perkallowed under his 2008 employment contract. Flight logs show that this included frequent tripsfrom Oklahoma City to Bermuda, where the McClendons own vacation properties. On one flight, ninefriends of McClendon's wife took a Chesapeake-leased jet to Bermuda without any McClendonsaboard.

Other records that show McClendon has leveraged his future profits in the Oklahoma CityThunder, the NBA team in which he owns a 19 percent stake. The team has a $36 millionsponsorship deal with Chesapeake.

Chesapeake declined to comment, as did a spokesman for McClendon.

This article contains excerpts from a Reuters Special Report to be published at 0700 ET/1100GMT, "The Lavish and Leveraged Life of Aubrey McClendon."

These details are emerging after Reuters reported other arrangements that analysts say posepotential conflicts of interest between McClendon's interests and those of Chesapeakeshareholders. Articles in April and May, for instance, reported that the CEO has arranged morethan $1.5 billion in personal loans using his interest in company-owned wells as collateral,including $1.3 billion from EIG Global Energy Partners, which is also a large source of fundingfor Chesapeake.

The company faces a liquidity crunch brought on by heavy borrowing and a sharp fall innatural gas prices and easing crude oil prices. That crunch is now being exacerbated by a lossof investor confidence triggered by the revelations about McClendon's financial dealings.